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Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Katie-Beth Jones, and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our practice management team in London.

London

20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

Contact

Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Katie-Beth Jones, and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our practice management team in London.

London

20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

Michael Collett KC

Michael Collett KC

Silk: 2013 Call: 1995

Languages: French (conversational)

Michael specialises in commercial law.

His areas of practice include general commercial disputes, international trade, shipping (including charterparty, contract of affreightment, bill of lading, shipbuilding, and ship sale and purchase disputes), commodities, conflicts of laws, insurance (including marine insurance and protection and indemnity cover), reinsurance, banking, and shareholder disputes.

Michael appears both in court and before a variety of arbitration tribunals. He is registered to appear before the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC).

He accepts appointments as an arbitrator. Michael has been involved in a number of references under various regimes, including the LCIA and LMAA terms, UNCITRAL rules, and ad hoc. He is a member of the panel of arbitrators of ARIAS (UK), MOOGAS, SCMA and SIAC.

 

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Michael is one of the best KCs in the space.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Extremely calm, knowledgeable and has an air of quiet authority in all he does

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

He is meticulous and extremely thorough.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Michael is a calm, measured and effective advocate who has seen everything and has an unparalleled ability to get to grips with the facts of a case.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

He's exceptionally methodical, really impressive and always gets a grip on the detail.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

He is very effective as counsel, knows his commodities law extremely well and presents his advocacy in a calm manner that goes down well with judges.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2023

Very effective as counsel. He knows his charterparty law extremely well and has a very strong intellect. His advocacy is well presented in a calm manner which goes down well with judges and arbitrators.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2023

Michael is faultless on the law and very calm and collected

Chambers UK Bar 2023

He is very detail-oriented and very good at marshalling information.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

A clever lawyer who thinks of nuances and is able to grasp the legal and commercial points at play. He is responsive and very user friendly.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

Michael is faultless on the law and very calm and collected.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

Very thorough, he has a 360-degree knowledge of how everything fits together in the commodities world.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

He is very detail-oriented and very good at marshalling information.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

A leading shipping silk who is skilled in litigation and international arbitration relating to commodities.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2021

He is a really solid lawyer and a really safe pair of hands.

Chambers UK Bar 2021

He has a genial manner that belies his razor sharp mind.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2021

He is well respected, fair-minded and good to deal with.

Chambers UK Bar 2021

He takes all the right points, sees angles no one else does, and has a genial manner that belies his razor-sharp mind.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2020

He is technically and academically excellent. His advice is practical, commercial and client-ready.

Chambers UK Bar 2020

His calm approach reassures clients.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2020

His knowledge is superb, he seems to have read everything. He's a very good advocate – not a table thumper, but quietly effective.

Chambers UK Bar 2020

He knows his subject matter inside out.

Chambers UK Bar 2019

He has a wealth of experience in shipping matters and is very approachable.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2018

He gives clear, accurate advice and is very good with clients. He has a very persuasive manner that goes down very well with judges and arbitrators.

Chambers UK Bar 2019

Superb. Knowledgeable, approachable and a delight to work with. He rolls his sleeves up while remaining totally unflappable. He is just fantastic.

Chambers UK Bar 2018

He is a very responsive, bright and friendly advocate.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2018

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